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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier: A Unique Eyewitness Account of the Face of Battle from Inside the Ranks of Bonaparte's Grand Army
Eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter served in the Grand Army of Napoleon between 1806 and 1813. His diary intimately records his trials: the long, grueling marches in …
Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia
Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history …
Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility
Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting …
Michael Speransky
"An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity about the …
Understanding Imperial Russia
Michael Speransky
"e;An autocracy tempered by assassination"e;, clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. With this bon mot the average curiosity …
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
Political Ideas And Institutions In Imperial Russia
Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best essays from his prolific, forty-year career; they span the history …
Russia Abroad
The dramatic events of the twentieth century have often brought about the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first such migrations …